» 144 achievements added
» New lifetime player stats and summary screens
» New match player stats and summary screens (Layout completely new)
» New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player (Like the Modern Warfare 2 Badges, but more detailed)
» Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
» New cinematic death camera ( Like mw2´s round winning kill slow motion scenes)
» New domination and revenge system
» Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display (Like the Modern Warfare 2 Badges)
» Incorporated many source engine updates. (New Graphics, No Hitboxes anymore etc..)
» New playable team: Counter-Counter-Terrorists. (Means 3 teams in a match or just something different.)
ShackNews.com wrote:The quiet giant that is Counter-Strike: Source doesn’t get talked about outside of its playerbase all that much these days -we’ve got our newfangled Team Fortresses and Modern Warfares instead – but it is nonetheless massive, has always been massive, and always will be massive. This is only going to make it more massive, I suspect. Valve have unexpectedly chucked out a pretty major update for it, cannily carrying a ‘beta’ tag. It is fatted with several of the digi-trinkets we tend to expect from modern shooters, which may put to bed calls for a full Counter-Strike 2.0 for a while. Or equally it might be exacerbate them, in a strange inverse of the Left 4 Dead 2 response. The internet’s famous Fear Of Change will doubtless play its part in the response to this too. Regardless, this is the exciting tale of the exciting tape: Achievements! Avatars! Death cam! Lifetime stats! Domination/revenge system! Some sort of graphical jiggery-pokery!
Oh lordy-lord, those servers will be on fire tonight… However! The sad fact is that Steam currently proclaims “thank you for your interest. All available slots have been filled.” So if you hadn’t snagged the update already, you’ll have to wait either until the final version releases – which, I suspect, won’t be far off, so as to take full advantage of hype machinations – or more ’slots’ are opened up. In any case, full details of this significant and forum-adrenalising update are below.
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